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According to a new report, the average eighth-grader needs over nine months of extra school time to catch up with pre-COVID achievement levels.
Next month, the Huntsville School District in Arkansas will join the wave of public schools switching to a four-day week.
New research indicates that U.S. public school spending has doubled since 2003, outpacing the rate of inflation and showing no clear correlation between more dollars per pupil and higher eighth-grade math and fourth-grade reading scores.
Back in the '60s, an interviewer asked the "King of Folk Music", Bob Dylan, what his goal in life was.
Schools are reportedly bracing for an "enrollment cliff" that will involve high schools and colleges closing down, staff getting laid off, and school districts grappling with financial issues. The declining U.S. birth rate is partly to blame.
"Every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom," state Superintendent Ryan Walters announced last week.
School Choice, Charter Schools, Home Schooling anything but "government run" schools. Our public school systems are failing.
